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- uncountableClothing to be worn after bathing.
My father driving me to school in a bathrobe, like bathwear has suddenly come into fashion or something, that’s bizarre.
2006, Olivia Birdsall, Notes on a Near-Life Experience, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 1072 more examples
For the dedicated couple, there are match-mate sets of casual clothing ranging from terry cloth bathwear to warm-up shirts.
1978, Peter Davison, Rolf Meyersohn, Edward Shils, editors, Literary Taste, Culture and Mass Communication, volume 9 (Uses of Literacy; Media), Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey; Teaneck, N.J.: Somerset House, →ISBN, page 9/231“I took him shopping,” Val said. “For bathwear?” he said, nodding toward Bobby who was still wrapped in a towel. “No, of course not for bathwear.” “But you have an interest in bathing my son?”
2015, David Whitehouse, Mobile Library, Scribner, →ISBN, page 88
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bathwear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bathwear
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